The Usage of Torrance Test of Creative Thinking in Art Education: A Study to evaluate the effectiveness of artistic creativity among animation students in Nanjing City Jiangsu Province, China Wang Lei, DR. JULINA BINTI ISMAIL@KAMAL
School of the Arts, Universiti Sains Malaysia,11800 Gelugor, Penang, Malaysia.
Abstract
Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking is an important method for testing creativity in the field of education. It was developed in 1966 and has gone through 5 revisions. It has become a highly reliable and widely used important means of measuring creativity. With the development of society, the creativity of students has received widespread attention. Educators are also very interested in the creativity of university students. But in the process of teaching, it is found that the creativity of university students^ works is not high, especially for university students majoring in animation, if there is no creativity, there will be a lack of good works. The study adopts qualitative research and will invite 12 Chinese university teachers as interviewees to conduct interviews on their experience of using TTCT-Figural. And conduct special interviews on its sub-item functions, usage methods, and applicability. Then use qualitative analysis MAXQDA software for summarization. According to the results, the use of TTCT-Figural to measure artistic creativity of university students has high applicability. It has practical significance for the evaluation of university students^ artistic creativity and can be applied to university students. At the same time, it also provides valuable experience for further improving the artistic creativity of university students in the field of animation course
Keywords: Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, artistic creativity, Chinese university animation students, evaluate the effectiveness
